Memorial Concert

The Westerville Symphony performs a concert of patriotic music at the Veterans Memorial, located several hundred feet from the Field of Heroes flags at the sports complex. My Final Photo for May 24, 2025.

The Westerville Symphony performs a concert of patriotic music at the Veterans Memorial, located several hundred feet from the Field of Heroes flags at the sports complex. My Final Photo for May 24, 2025.

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Comics To Go

Comics To Go

Jerome Rogers shows off the comic books, action figures, and lunch boxes he bought at World’s Greatest Comics 13th Anniversary Sale Saturday in Glengary Center. My Final Photo for March 9, 2024. 

Uptown Tuneup

Uptown Tuneup

Gary Puckett restrings a mandolin in his music studio in Uptown Westerville as he waits for his Cardinal Pizza to be done. My Final Photo for March 8, 2024.

Racing Rowers

Racing Rowers

A kayaker steers away from a rapidly approaching Westerville Crew rowing boat practicing with other boats at Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for March 7, 2024.

Measuring Ups And Downs Uptown

Measuring Ups And Downs Uptown

Surveyor Matt Preston measures elevations and locations along West Main Street for the city which plans to lay new water mains in Uptown. My Final Photo for March 6, 2024

Distillery’s Doors

Distillery’s Doors

Carpenters finish attaching the second of two new doors to the south side of the old post office after the doorways were added to open onto a planned elevated patio to serve customers of High Bank Distillery. My Final Photo for March 5, 2024.

The Blues On Monday

The Blues On Monday

Joseph Domanik plays blues on his Stratocaster while leaning on an oak tree still burdened with last summer’s leaves. Domanick decided his day off from work and the temperature in the low 70s at the start of March gave him good reason to sit in the afternoon sun at Red Bank Park even if to play the blues. My Final Photo for March 4, 2024.

Peaceful Sunday At The Lake

Peaceful Sunday At The Lake

Brian Cooper and his 10-year-old daughter, Aleah, enjoyed a peaceful moment on the dock at the Hoover Walnut Boat Ramp, lounging in the lawn chairs he keeps in his car for spontaneous outings like this when the weather is nice and they have no other obligations. My Final Photo for March 3, 2024.

Saturday Cookies

Saturday Cookies

Six-year-old Lucy Todd bites into a cookie as her brother, Mike, 3, chews on the cookie his parents got for them at the Cookie Walk in Uptown Westerville Saturday afternoon. My Final Photo for February 2, 2024.

Youngest Fish Fry Disciple

Youngest Fish Fry Disciple

Six-year-old Benjamin Galio, the youngest and smallest server at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church’s Lenten fish fry pauses for a moment to smile and have his picture taken before serving another group of diners. My Final Photo for March 1, 2024.

Brick Walk Trees

Brick Walk Trees

Workers cover freshly poured concrete designed to be platforms for grating surrounding trees to be planted in the Brick Walk between Java Central and High Bank Distillery. My Final Photo for February 29, 2024.

Fixing The Flooring

Fixing The Flooring

A flooring crew installs new tongue and groove maple strips to match the existing floor at High Bank Distillery in Uptown, which will be sanded and stained for a new durable surface. My Final Photo for February 28, 2024.

Skating Like Summer

Skating Like Summer

Kadin runs her skates crisscross over Haywood Alley in Uptown enjoying both the warm February weather and the smooth surface of the roadway to help relieve stress and get some exercise. My Final Photo for February 27, 2024.

Catch Of The Day

Catch Of The Day

A fisherman collects more than two dozen shad he netted while casting for bait at Red Bank Marina at Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for September 25, 2024.

Not So Sweet Gum

Not So Sweet Gum

A Westerville service division worker directs traffic around a sweet gum tree being cleared after it fell into the intersection of Otterbein Avenue and East Park Street. My Final Photo for September 24, 2024.

Wetlands Autumn

Wetlands Autumn

A man walking his dog through the wetlands at Highlands Park pauses to make photos of the early fall colors. My Final Photo for September 23, 2024.

Family Sailing

Family Sailing

Brother and sister sailors store their mainsail after a day sailing across the waters of Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for September 22, 2024.

Treetop Daredevil

Treetop Daredevil

A young girl dangles from a climber’s rope hanging from a cottonwood tree during Arbor Fest in Alum Creek Park Saturday. My Final Photo for September 21, 2024.

Soybean Dining Deer

Soybean Dining Deer

A buck whitetail deer turns to the camera to announce his dislike for its distance from him and the herd, which is eating soybeans in the Yarnell farm field on its way to the nearby chestnut trees. My Final Photo for September 20, 2024.

Goldenrod Walkers

Goldenrod Walkers

A man and a woman walking in opposite directions pass each other on a path through goldenrod fields at Sharon Woods Park. My Final Photo for September 19, 2024.